If philosophical moral reflection tends to promote moral behavior, one might
think that professional ethicists would behave morally better than do socially
comparable non-ethicists.We
examined three types of courteous and discourteous behavior at American
Philosophical Association conferences: talking audibly while the speaker is
talking (vs. remaining silent), allowing the door to slam shut while entering or
exiting mid-session (vs. attempting to close the door quietly), and leaving
behind clutter at the end of a session (vs. leaving one’s seat tidy).By these three measures, audiences in ethics sessions did not appear,
generally speaking, to behave any more courteously than did audiences in
non-ethics sessions.However,
audiences in environmental ethics sessions did appear to leave behind less
trash.

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